I assume the main difference is the timeline of events.

It would be ignorant not to fear the ID at this point with all the other mechanisms described by OP.

The ID in itself can be a good thing. There is no evil in itself. The context however is very worrisome as it may become a tool of evil.

Classic human.

What I've been witnessing in the recent time is that people who have no coding experience but great ideas, get into coding and due to the cheap and fast way of generating this code, have no issues with sharing it.

Other people who have more or a lot of experience with coding, help them and everybody profits in the end.

I understand that it becomes a problem with some businesses but others may profit too.

It's not all bad.

This Thiel-Verse product is exactly what privacy concerned people always warned about but worse.

We're delivering tools of surveillance to a world where freedom loving countries turn into oppressive regimes.

Really ugly times ahead of us...

I hope by admitting defeat and shifting the blame for the numbers to creators, they also stop this ridiculous fight with adblockers. I'm sure they could allocate the investments in this elsewhere.